MacDailyNews Take: Does it strike anyone else as curious that “iPhone 5” was the world’s third most-searched for image (ahead of Megan Fox, Rihanna, and Katy Perry!) and the only consumer electronics device to make that list, yet still failed to show up in Google’s top 10 list of consumer electronics? The Lumia, Surface, and Nexus 7 were each searched for more times than the world’s best-selling smartphone?

Good point. I admit I was counted in the #8 ranking of Microsoft Surface search. But I had typed “Microsoft Surface fails” a few weeks after it came out to see what I’d get to read. So a Microsloth top 10 ranking isn’t necessarily a positive thing.

Could not agree more, Googles cook the books. How the Hell iPhone 5 did not make the top ten on the tech list is just Mind-boggling. What is even more mind-boggling is that the Samsung Galaxy S3 made the list at #2 and iPhone 5 do not all. How the the top tech product of 2012 not make the list is beyond my comprehension.

Absolutely, these lists are suspect, compared with Yahoo’s which seem unperverted samplings of actual human interest. I suggest these lists are biased because of a combination of complicit SEO poisoning, corrupt back room deals like the old days of radio payola or “incentive” payments to Variety and Photoplay, and inept tinkering with the search and display-ranking algorithms by 21-year-old quants trying to game the social spectrum, using LP to maximize ad revenue subject to the constraint that people dislike ads. Just a wild guess.